accountants

Policy & Regulation

FSC argues for exclusion of ‘experts’ from new claims-handling rules

Accountants, doctors and other should be excluded from the coverage of claims handling as a financial service and insurers should be allowed to continue giving ‘factual s...

Financial planning

Limited licensing has failed claims SMSF Association

The SMSF Association wants the Government to dump its limited licensing regime for accountants on the basis of it having failed to meet its objectives and having, instead...

Policy & Regulation

IPA supports gov reintroduction of SG amnesty

The Institute of Public Accountants has put its support behind the Government’s reintroduction of the superannuation guarantee amnesty bill....

Accounting

Accountants best to help other accountant’s mental health

With October being Mental Health Month, it’s a good opportunity for people in the profession to look out for each other’s mental health....

Financial planning

Do advisers face being squeezed out of super?

Will changes to default superannuation arrangements combine with changes to income streams serve to squeeze many advisers out of the superannuation market?...

Features

Advice and accounting – convergence

Mike Taylor writes that new research conducted by Money Management has confirmed general acceptance of the convergence of accounting and advice but only on the right term...

Financial planning

Let us give ‘incidental advice’ say accountants

Major accounting body, Chartered Accountants ANZ has argued for accountants to be given the right to give ‘incidental advice’ under a carve-out from the financial advice ...

Policy & Regulation

CA ANZ responds to FASEA approval

CA ANZ is pleased FASEA has recognised it’s CA qualification, but is still working with FASEA on recognition of their other specialisations....

Financial planning

The advice/accounting convergence – good or bad?

Is there an advice/accounting convergence underway and is it something advisers want?...

Superannuation

Accountant-planner relationship needs to evolve

The accountant-planner relationship is evolving to better serve self-managed super fund trustees, according to Investment Trends....

Policy & Regulation

Accounting body alleges the ALP misled the public on advice fees

Labor has been accused of spreading “significant misinformation” on accountants’ fees for providing tax advice, with a major industry body saying that its figures on fees...

Financial planning

Planning/accounting convergence predicted in post-RC world

A new whitepaper has predicted a further important convergence between accounting and planning as the exit of the banks and the impacts of the Financial Adviser Standards...

Policy & Regulation

IPA claims dodgy data underpins ALP’s tax advice changes

The Institute of Public Accountants has continued its defence of tax advice fees, arguing the move is unjustified and that the underlying data has been inappropriately us...

Policy & Regulation

We’re not rorters say accountants

Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand have defended the tax deductibility of accountancy advice, vowing that accountants are not rorters....

Policy & Regulation

Accountants baulk at more industry funding for TPB

Big accounting group CPA Australia has warned the Government against seeking to impose a full industry funding model for the Tax Practitioners Board when accountants are ...